Trending Architects — the 7 days to 25 October 2026

1

Leonardo da Vinci

Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)

📚 55 citations

80,852
views

2

Michelangelo

Italian artist and architect (1475-1564)

📚 50 citations

53,481
views

3

Thomas Jefferson

Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)

📚 56 citations 📰 65 stories · 20 sources

46,697
views

4

Boris Yeltsin

Soviet and Russian politician, 1st President of Russia (1931–2007)

📚 39 citations 📰 13 stories · 6 sources

39,183
views

5

Martha Stewart

American businesswoman, writer, TV personality (born 1941)

📚 30 citations 📰 14 stories · 5 sources

33,401
views

6

Renzo Piano

Italian architect (1937-)

📚 46 citations

31,476
views

7

Bianca Censori

Australian architect and model (born 1995)

📚 4 citations

31,470
views

8

Antoni Gaudí

Catalan architect (1852–1926)

📚 49 citations

28,719
views

9

Yolanda Hadid

American television personality and former model

📚 5 citations

27,857
views

10

Albert Speer

German Nazi architect, Government Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany and convicted Nazi War Criminal (1905–1981)

📚 38 citations

25,625
views

11

Billy Blanco

Brazilian singer, musician and composer (1924-2011)

📚 5 citations

23,290
views

12

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

American actor

📚 7 citations

22,893
views

13

Frank Lloyd Wright

American architect (1867-1959)

📚 67 citations 📰 15 stories · 5 sources

21,906
views

14

Raphael

Italian painter and architect (1483–1520)

📚 51 citations

20,946
views

15

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)

📚 50 citations

19,703
views

16

John Stewart

fictional superhero published by DC Comics

📚 3 citations 📰 3 stories · 2 sources

17,908
views

17

Le Corbusier

Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, and writer (1886–1965)

📚 116 citations

15,354
views

18

Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa

ancient Roman statesman and general

📚 18 citations

14,753
views

19

Sussanne Khan

Indian interior fashion designer

📚 1 citation

14,666
views

20

Joan Fontaine

British actress (1917–2013)

📚 28 citations

14,307
views

21

Rudolf Steiner

Austrian social reformer, occultist and esotericist (1861–1925)

📚 48 citations

13,925
views

22

Olena Zelenska

First Lady of Ukraine since 2019

📚 5 citations

13,875
views

23

Helena Roseta

Portuguese architect, politician

📚 4 citations

13,804
views

24

Tom Hart Dyke

British gardener

📚 5 citations

13,348
views

25

Mary Richardson Kennedy

American interior designer, architect, and philanthropist

13,287
views

26

Zaha Hadid

Iraqi British architect, designer and painter (1950–2016)

📚 65 citations

12,540
views

27

Lee Radziwill

American socialite (1933–2019)

📚 14 citations

12,366
views

28

Elie Wiesel

Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor (1928–2016)

📚 54 citations 📰 6 stories · 3 sources

12,098
views

29

Eric Villency

American chief executive

12,047
views

30

Gustave Eiffel

French chemical engineer and architect (1832–1923)

📚 45 citations

11,925
views

31

Juan Pablo Escobar Henao

Peace Ambassador, Colombian architect, author, and the son of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar

📚 6 citations

11,483
views

32

Andrey Makarevich

Soviet and Russian rock musician

📚 8 citations

11,351
views

33

Piet Mondrian

Dutch painter (1872–1944)

📚 64 citations

10,809
views

34

Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester

cousin of Queen Elizabeth II; youngest grandchild of King George V and Queen Mary (born 1944)

📚 10 citations

10,737
views

35

William Morris

textile designer, artist, writer, printer (1834–1896)

📚 60 citations

10,393
views

36

Catherine FitzGerald

Irish landscape designer and gardener (born 1971)

📚 2 citations

10,358
views

37

Egon Schiele

Austrian painter (1890-1918)

📚 48 citations

10,293
views

38

Alphonse Mucha

Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist (1860–1939)

📚 59 citations

10,127
views

39

H. R. Giger

Swiss artist (1940–2014)

📚 33 citations

10,102
views

40

Jonathan Scott

Canadian television personality

9,264
views

41

Daedalus

son of Metion in Greek mythology

📚 10 citations

9,205
views

42

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Italian sculptor and architect (1598–1680)

📚 46 citations

9,157
views

43

Jan van Eyck

Flemish painter (c.1390–1441)

📚 40 citations

8,927
views

44

Virgil Abloh

American fashion designer (1980-2021)

📚 21 citations

8,759
views

45

Frank Gehry

Canadian and American architect (1929–2025)

📚 65 citations 📰 4 stories · 2 sources

8,611
views

46

Giotto

Italian painter and architect (c. 1267–1337)

📚 42 citations

8,480
views

47

Imhotep

Egyptian architect, physician, astronomer, and god of medicine in ancient Egyptian mythology.

📚 14 citations

8,443
views

48

El Greco

Greek artist, painter, sculptor and architect (1541–1614)

📚 46 citations

8,383
views

49

Robert Moses

American urban planner (1888–1981)

📚 22 citations

7,726
views

50

Simon Wiesenthal

Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter (1908–2005)

📚 33 citations

7,722
views

51

Riken Yamamoto

Japanese architect (1945-)

📚 12 citations

7,690
views

52

Vyacheslav Butusov

Russian singer-songwriter (born 1961)

📚 5 citations

7,596
views

53

John Ruskin

English writer and art critic (1819–1900)

📚 45 citations

7,534
views

54

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

British mechanical and civil engineer (1806-1859)

📚 25 citations

7,383
views

55

David Bromstad

American designer and television personality

7,195
views

56

Robert Hooke

English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)

📚 48 citations

7,103
views

57

Farah Pahlavi

queen/empress consort of Iran from 1959 to 1979

📚 22 citations

7,095
views

58

Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi

engineer and politician (1972–2026)

📚 7 citations

6,990
views

59

John Singer Sargent

American painter (1856–1925)

📚 40 citations

6,868
views

60

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Austrian artist (1928–2000)

📚 41 citations

6,802
views

61

Larry Silverstein

American businessman

📚 3 citations

6,796
views

62

Tadao Ando

Japanese architect (born 1941)

📚 33 citations

6,719
views

63

Zdzisław Beksiński

Polish artist (1929-2005)

📚 20 citations

6,357
views

64

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

German architect (1886–1969)

📚 63 citations

6,354
views

65

Oscar Niemeyer

Brazilian architect (1907–2012)

📚 43 citations 📰 11 stories · 5 sources

6,089
views

66

Georges-Eugène Haussmann

French official and politician (1809-1891)

📚 29 citations

6,034
views

67

Raoul Wallenberg

Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat and humanitarian (1912-1947)

📚 32 citations

5,853
views

68

Vitruvius

Roman architect and engineer

📚 27 citations

5,847
views

69

Amenhotep III

ninth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt

📚 7 citations

5,776
views

70

Joanna Gaines

interior designer

5,760
views

71

Neri Oxman

Israeli-American designer and academic (born 1976)

📚 15 citations 📰 4 stories · 2 sources

5,740
views

72

Arnold Palmer

American golfer (1929–2016)

📚 17 citations 📰 24 stories · 6 sources

5,721
views

73

Ai Weiwei

Chinese Conceptual artist (born 1957)

📚 44 citations

5,684
views

74

Santiago Calatrava

Spanish-Swiss engineer, architect, and artist (born 1951)

📚 38 citations

5,497
views

75

Filippo Brunelleschi

Italian architect, sculptor and engineer

📚 39 citations

5,437
views

76

Walter Gropius

German-American architect (1883–1969)

📚 71 citations

5,349
views

77

Norman Foster

British architect (born 1935)

📚 45 citations

5,341
views

78

Anish Kapoor

British-Indian artist (born 1954)

📚 61 citations

5,102
views

79

Jack Nicklaus

American golfer (born 1940)

📚 15 citations

5,085
views

80

Camille O'Sullivan

Irish musician

📚 6 citations

5,000
views

81

Buckminster Fuller

American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist (1895–1983)

📚 71 citations

4,968
views

82

John Martin

English painter, engraver and illustrator (1789–1854)

📚 43 citations 📰 6 stories · 4 sources

4,910
views

83

Roderich Fick

German architect (1886–1955)

📚 9 citations

4,884
views

84

Ernő Rubik

Hungarian inventor (born 1944)

📚 13 citations

4,863
views

85

Vitaly Kaloyev

Russian architect

📚 1 citation

4,710
views

86

Massimiliano Fuksas

Italian architect and designer (born 1944)

📚 23 citations

4,629
views

87

Minoru Yamasaki

American architect (1912–1986)

📚 25 citations

4,583
views

88

Giorgio Vasari

Italian painter, architect, writer and historian (1511-1574)

📚 41 citations

4,566
views

89

Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia

Russian grand duke; fourth child and third son of Alexander II of Russia and Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse)

📚 8 citations

4,553
views

90

Catherine Hardwicke

American film director, screenwriter and architect

📚 9 citations

4,491
views

91

Fritz Todt

German engineer, Holocaust perpetrator, and senior Nazi figure (1891–1942)

📚 17 citations

4,439
views

92

Andrea Palladio

Italian architect (1508–1580)

📚 36 citations

4,438
views

93

Queen Noor of Jordan

Queen and Queen Dowager of Jordan; philanthropist and activist

📚 11 citations

4,293
views

94

Hilary Labow

American actress

📚 2 citations

4,263
views

95

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

French painter (1780–1867)

📚 53 citations

4,262
views

96

Gorō Miyazaki

Japanese anime director (born 1967)

📚 13 citations

4,214
views

97

Isamu Noguchi

Japanese-American artist and landscape architect (1904–1988)

📚 47 citations

4,208
views

98

I. M. Pei

Chinese-American architect (1917–2019)

📚 50 citations

4,153
views

99

Luigi Pantisano

German politician (The Left)

4,092
views

100

Juan Pablo Mohr

Chilean mountaineer

4,083
views